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West Virginia v. EPA leaves EPA authority over power plants, says Ricketts

Sam Ricketts · Are Biden’s climate ambitions in Congress dead? · Jul 19, 2022 · at 15:17

Sam Ricketts discusses regulatory pathways available to the Biden administration following the Supreme Court's West Virginia v. EPA ruling and stalled congressional climate legislation in July 2022.

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“The recent West Virginia EPA decision, which certainly curtailed the EPA's authority in certain respects, but also left them Plenty of running room to finalize standards for carbon pollution from both new and existing power plants, and those standards have got to be promulgated very quickly by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act.”

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The Supreme Court's West Virginia v. EPA ruling left the EPA sufficient authority to finalize carbon pollution standards for both new and existing power plants under the Clean Air Act.

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